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The Simons live an isolated two-person world in the Tasmanian bush, North America, and the Thanksgiving schedule continues.

11月13日到11月19日这一周，弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉的吸血鬼题材惊悚片《惊情400年》成功登顶单周票房冠军，七天时间进账3870万美元，馆均超过1.5万美元。

Ranked No. 2, "Midnight Ring", in the third week of its release, the box office fell by only 17%, and continued to earn 2077 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 7459 million US dollars in three weeks.

The new film "Scent of a Woman" released by Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films has a comprehensive film score of 8.8 points. In the first week, the opening scale of 20 screens earned 63 U.S. dollars in seven days, and the average museum reached 3.1 U.S. dollars .

Whether it is word-of-mouth from film critics or box office data, "Scent of a Woman" has reached the level of popularity that a film in the awards season should have.

On November 11, "Home Alone 20", which has a heavy Thanksgiving schedule, officially started painting on a scale of 2 screens.

Because of the astonishing box office accumulated by the first part of "Home Alone", this week, only Warner Bros.'s biographical drama "Black Tide" will be released at the same time as "Home Alone 2".

"Dark Tide," directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, is still a film about racial issues.

Compared with "Home Alone 2", the number of opening screens of "Kuroshio" is only 1124. Coupled with the subject matter, it basically does not constitute any competition or threat to "Home Alone 2".

Relying on the popularity of the first film, coupled with Daenerys Entertainment's spare no effort in publicity, although "Home Alone 2" has many overlaps with the first film in terms of plot, which has reduced the film's reputation to a certain extent, but Its status as a comedy film for the holiday schedule is very qualified.

11月20日到11月26日，开画首周七天，《小鬼当家2》一举斩获5313万美元票房，轻松登顶单周票房榜单No.1。

Affected by "Home Alone 2", "400 Years of Surprise" fell by 45% in a single week, earning US$2150 million in the second week of its release, ranking No.2, with a cumulative box office of US$6021 million in two weeks.Although the production cost was as high as 4000 million US dollars, it earned more than 6000 million in two weeks, and Columbia's profit on this project can also be expected.

The market performance of Spike Lee's new film "The Dark Tide" obviously exceeded the expectations of the industry, and it can be described as a double harvest at the box office.

The film not only received a comprehensive media score of 8.8 points comparable to "Scent of a Woman", but also, with a scale of 1124 screens, the seven-day box office revenue in the first week also reached 1831 million U.S. dollars, with an average of more than 1.6 U.S. dollars, ranking the most in a single week. List No.3.

Unfortunately, like Daenerys Entertainment's "The Crying Game" and "Howards End," "Dark Tide" is destined to make way for another Warner Bros. film "Unforgiven" this upcoming awards season.

Following "The Kuroshio", "Midnight Ring" ranked No.4, and the film's single-week box office decline also expanded to 24%. In the fourth week of its release, it earned another $1579 million, and the cumulative box office in four weeks was $9038 million. It is expected to exceed [-] million next week.

"Passengers 5", No. 57 on the list, dropped directly to around US$600 million in box office figures.

After the word-of-mouth and popularity continued to ferment, "Scent of a Woman" still maintained a screening size of 20 screens in the second week, but the average house increased to 3.7 US dollars, earning another 74 US dollars.

Relying on two consecutive weeks of excellent film performances, the new week, the screening scale of "Scent of a Woman" has officially rolled out, with the number of screens reaching 1083.

Chapter 512 Hug (Modify)

The Johnston mansion.

There was a loud cry of a child, and Veronica was the first to appear at the door.

In the living room, Simon and Janet stood on one side of the room, with some little guy in the middle.

Janet was still soothing and encouraging, but Melbourne sat on the carpet and cried loudly.Seeing Veronica appear, the little guy immediately spread out a pair of chubby hands towards her, and said in a crying voice: "Grandma (NaNa), hug (Hug)."

Veronica looked at the little guy, took a step forward distressedly, but stopped, and looked at Simon who was holding a baby toy with a helpless expression.

Tomorrow is December 12th, Melbourne's first birthday.

Under normal circumstances, a toddler should be able to try to walk at this time, or at least stand up. However, under the pampering of a large family, the little one is still unable to stand at this time.

Words are learned quite early.

It's just this that makes Simon even more depressed.

It doesn't matter if the first word a child learns is not father or mother, grandparents are also fine, after all, they are placed here to take care of them.

However, the first word a certain little guy learned was 'hug' (Hug).

He doesn't recognize life very much, and hugs everyone he sees.

Facing such a little baby who is so beautifully carved and can act like a baby, this kind of request can certainly be satisfied.

As a result, I was often hugged by adults. I was able to crawl when I was half a year old, but now I don’t even bother to climb, let alone walk.

Regarding the child's education, when the little guy was still in Janet's womb, the two of them occasionally discussed and said that one must be a good policeman and a bad policeman.

It now appears that Simon and Janet belong to the 'bad cop' kind.

Of course, there is no shortage of good cops.

Almost all of them are here in Australia.

Simon didn't speak, and Veronica didn't dare to go forward to pick up the baby. Seeing that the 'NaNa' who loved her in the past didn't move, the little guy started crying even louder.

Then, the big boss appeared.

Raymond Johnston appeared at the door, glanced at the situation in the room, and immediately understood what was going on.Probably because of intergenerational relatives, the old man doted on the little guy even more, he just gave his daughter and son-in-law a sullen look, walked over and took the little guy who had already shouted 'PaPa, Hug' away.

Janet watched the child being taken away by her father, dropped the rattle in her hand, looked at Simon, and said, "How can this work?"

Veronica still stayed in the distance. Hearing what Janet said, she said softly, "Moore is still young."

Then he looked at Simon again.

Simon also threw away the toy in his hand, and noticed the obvious worry in Veronica's eyes, he hesitated for a while, but still only shrugged.

Veronica was obviously worried that the couple would take the little guy away this time.

Janet looked at the strange emotional communication between Simon and Veronica, a little depressed, and simply opened her arms and shouted at Simon: "Hug."

Simon noticed the dissatisfaction on Janet's face, smiled and got up and walked over, bent down and hugged her light body, kissed the woman's cheek, and left the living room in such a greasy way.

The old man was originally dissatisfied with Simon and Janet leaving the child in Australia to be taken care of by Veronica. He hinted at bringing the little one back to Los Angeles when he just arrived last month.

However, seeing the couple teaching their children to walk these days, they suddenly stopped mentioning something.

In Janet's words, the old man educated his eldest and second child, and then he was not very good at raising offspring, and he spoiled the youngest grandson even more.

If the little guy stays here all the time and wants to have a successor to the Westeros family, the two of them will probably only have one more child.

This is of course mostly a joke.

The child is indeed a little small.

The next day was the little guy's first birthday, and the preparations had already started ahead of time. Naturally, it was very lively. A lot of rich and famous people from Australia came. A certain little guy didn't know about it, it was more like a social party .

Probably inspired by the "Dream of Red Mansions" that has been reading non-stop, Janet also played a small game of catching weeks at the party.

Of course, there must be no such things as face powder and lipstick. They are all kinds of objects with very good meanings.

Don't give the little guy a chance to become 'Jia Baoyu' at all.

Finally grabbed a piece of iron ore, the old man was happy for a whole day.

Janet was very depressed, thinking that the reason why the little guy grabbed iron ore was because it looked like chocolate.

Snacks!

Simon felt that it was more likely that among the serious things like pens and watches, the dark iron ore seemed the most unscrupulous.The little guy saw something weird in a pair of daily necessities, of course he would grab it curiously.

The scale of the Westeros system is too large. Even on vacation, it is impossible for Simon to completely let go of everything.

In North America, the most eye-catching thing during the Thanksgiving holiday is not "Home Alone 2", which can naturally get a high box office, but the sales of the videotapes of the Victoria's Secret Show.

After the ABC TV broadcast created a ratings miracle, Daenerys Entertainment quickly put the tape of the big show on the shelves a week later.

Whether it's the memorable enchanting style of the Victoria's Secret Legion, or the five consecutive new songs that have become classics in the big show, they have largely promoted the sales of the Victoria's Secret big show video tapes.

It happens to be the peak sales season during the festival, and in the first week of its release, 78 videotapes of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show were quickly sold.

If it weren't for the fact that the video tapes were too popular, and the production and distribution couldn't keep up with the demand, it wouldn't be a problem for the sales to exceed 100 million boxes in the first week.

In the following two weeks, the single-week sales of this video tape reached 136 million and 95 respectively.

Just last week, the total sales volume reached 309 million boxes.

According to the price of about 30 US dollars, 309 million video tapes, sales of more than 9000 million US dollars.

Obviously, this is just the beginning.

It is generally predicted in the industry that the sales of this phenomenon-level videotape will exceed 1000 million in North America alone, and it is even expected to reach 1500 million in total worldwide.

You must know that the total global sales of some of the Hollywood films with the best box office results in recent years after the release of the video tapes is the same number.

1500 million boxes, $4.5 million in sales.

Absolutely a miracle.

Over the years, the whole of Hollywood has been trying to catch up with Daenerys Entertainment as much as possible.

However, just this one videotape gave other competitors a sense of unattainable frustration.

Whether it is the entertainment industry or the fashion industry, the sales of Victoria's Secret fashion show video tapes are all amazing.

Then there were even rumors that the Ford Modeling Agency was trying to claim a cut of the video sales.

According to the basic agreement between Hollywood and the major guilds, film and television creators do have the right to receive a small commission from the sale of video tapes, but this video tape is an exception.

Even though some of the Victoria's Secret angels have the status of actors, this time, Daenerys Entertainment and the Victoria's Secret Legion signed an ordinary catwalk contract.

If you want a share, don't even think about it.

When Amy Pascal heard the news, she directly said that if Ford plans to make a fuss, next year none of the company's models will be able to appear on the Victoria's Secret runway.

It was already clear that it was impossible to share the profits, but in the face of such a warning, all interested parties immediately died down.

This big show is obvious for the promotion of the career of participating models.

Due to the high TV ratings and the huge sales of videotapes, the [-] Victoria's Secret Angels have gained a public reputation far exceeding that of other models in the same industry, and cooperation invitations are pouring in.

The competition in the fashion industry is very fierce, and it is everyone's dream to have such an advantage, so naturally there will be no complications.

If they are really kicked out, there will really be people crying and others laughing.

Those who cried were kicked away, and those who laughed were those who tried their best to get in.

LTD Chairman Leslie Wexner was even more fortunate with regrets. At the beginning, he almost agreed to fully authorize the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to Daenerys Entertainment. LTD doesn’t even want to get a penny. Unfortunately, if it could have fully assumed the investment of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, instead of sharing the budget with Daenerys Entertainment, most of the proceeds this time will belong to LTD .

Sales of 4.5 million U.S. dollars, excluding all costs, net profit is estimated to be 1.5 million U.S. dollars

For the whole LTD, the net profit in most years is not necessarily so much.

Of course, Leslie Wexner also knew that the one-off gain this time might be very large.

After all, the first Victoria's Secret Show was basically done by Simon Westero himself. Whether it was the design of the angel costume or the production of the background music, Westeros put a lot of thought into it, so it gave the audience a special look. An unprecedented sense of amazement.

The future Victoria's Secret show will of course attract much attention. However, because the angel dress is destined to be unable to make too much innovation, it is unlikely that Westeros will continue to create songs for the Victoria's Secret show. Therefore, if you want to win the first place The sensation of this time is basically impossible.

Of course, there is such a time, it is enough to make people happy.

The focus of this operation is the Victoria's Secret brand. Compared with 1991, the overall sales volume of this year is expected to increase by 30%, most of which will be realized in the half year after the acquisition of LTD by the Westeros system.

It is estimated that next year, Victoria's Secret's sales growth is likely to reach 40% to 50%.

Maintaining this sales growth rate, within five years, Victoria's Secret will be able to grow into the largest underwear brand in North America.

On the other hand, LTD's fast fashion transformation of fashion business is also quite smooth.

Leslie Wexneben is a businessman with many years of experience in the fashion industry, but he never rests on his laurels.

In the past, he just failed to find a suitable direction. After receiving Simon’s guidance, Leslie Wexner carefully investigated the Spanish Zara brand that had already developed its business in North America, and quickly sorted out the company’s expansion model, and made great efforts to The Express brand under LTD will be adjusted and transformed accordingly.

Simon thought that this vacation would allow him to stay safely in Australia until after the New Year.

However, after the news of the success of the Victoria's Secret video tape, there was another bad news from North America.

The thing is about Time Warner.

It was clear to all that Steve Ross's days were numbered because of cancer.

However, after more than half a year of treatment, at least on the surface, Rose seemed to show signs of improvement, and he still firmly controlled the Time Warner Group during this year.

Time Warner's situation, except for the film business supported by the DC movie universe, is somewhat unsatisfactory.

After waiting patiently for more than half a year, as the end of the year approached, some people became restless again.

Gerald Levine, Time Warner's current vice-chairman, who has been internally designated by Ross as the next successor, recently launched a sudden attack. He joined forces with a large number of Time Warner shareholders and senior management, and demanded that Ross be seriously ill and unable to concentrate on managing the company. steve ross steps down

The most direct result of this management coup was not Ross's resignation, but a sharp drop in Time Warner's stock price.

Naturally, another group of people immediately expressed dissatisfaction, especially the die-hard supporters of the Rose faction.

The two sides have exchanged several times in the media and in private, and the flags and drums were basically going to die down.

After all, no one wants Time Warner's stock price to keep falling.

But, soon another thing happened.

On December 12, Steve Ross suddenly fell into a coma and became unconscious.

After examination, the doctor determined that it was a lung infection caused by complications of cancer.